Samantha Ryder
Student Research AssistantGeography Major
Samantha helped with tumor volume measurements and data acquisition. She is also pre-med, and understands how geography will prepare her for her future in medicine. ;) Along with research experience in the Swanson lab of course!
Gina Tran
Student Research AssistantBioEngineering Major
Gina collected tumor volume data.
Kristin DeVleming
Student Research AssistantKristin collected tumor volume data.
Trish Banik
Student Research AssistantResearch Assistant
Biochemistry Major
Trish helped us with tumor volume measurements and data acquisition over the summer of 2009 and is now on to research in intercelluar dynamics.
Julia Moore
Student Research Assistant
ACMS Major (Microbiology Minor) - Graduated Spring 2009
VIGRE Award Recipient
Mary Gates Scholar (2008)
Barry M. Goldwater Scholar (2008) Julia has worked on refining a model for the delayed effect of radiation on gliomas, as well as concurrent and adjuvant chemotherapy and is testing this model on patient data. In addition, Julia has automated elements of our 3D simulation analysis, creating beautiful movies! And, becoming an expert MATLAB programmer.
Publications
ABSTRACTS
- Rockne R, Moore JL, Swanson KR. Three-dimensional simulation of glioma growth and response to radiation therapy: a case study. Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 2008
Julia Hamilton
Student Research Assistant
Music Major - Graduated Spring 2009
Julia contributed a substantial amount to measuring tumor volumes with Shokouh, Youngmee and Mandy over the course of over 2 years in the lab. Julia, as evidenced by her photo above, was a joy to have in the lab.
Larissa Miller
Student Research Assistant
Material Science Engineering Major
Larissa contributed to data collection and cataloging via tumor volume measurements and database maintenance and entry work.
Brad Peterson
Student Research Assistant
In addition to being the lab EMT, Brad joined Shokouh, Chunyan and Julia H on the MRI measurement team, focusing on learning how to segment tumor volumes
Youngmee Sul
BS - Post Bac Research AssistantYoungmee has a degree in Neuroscience. She helped with tumor volume measurements along with Shokouh, Julia Hamilton and Mandy on her way to dental school.
Harkirat Sohi
Research Assistant
Graduated Summer 2008
VIGRE Award Recepient
NASA Undergraduate Student Resarch Program
Biology and ACMS Major
Harkirat has completed her ACMS thesis project, which deals with the discretization of continuous forms and their analogies in medical imaging. She is graduated and off to NASA. UPDATE 4-27-09: Harkirat is now off to another NASA program investigating muscle atrophy in astronauts
Chunyan Zhou
Research Assistant
Graduated Spring 2008
Biochemistry and Physiology Major
Chunyan graduated June 2008 and measured tumor volumes at a break-neck pace!
Danielle Peacock
Research Scientist
B.S. BioChemistry
Danielle worked part-time in the lab, greatly helping collect and measure data for all projects in addition to managing the
immense
amounts of collected data. She is currently pursuing a PhD in pathology at the University of Tennessee.Publications
Articles - Peer Reviewed
- Wang C, Rockhill JK, Mrugala M, Peacock DL, Lai A, Jusenius K, Wardlaw JM, Cloughesy T, Spence AM, Rockne R, Alvord EC Jr., Swanson KR: Prognostic significance of growth kinetics in newly diagnosed glioblastomas revealed by combining serial imaging with a novel bio-mathematical model. in press Cancer Research 2009
Jonathan Claridge
Graduate Student in Applied Mathematics
VIGRE Award Recipient
Jonathan spent time wrestling a large mathematical model which takes into account several disparate cell populations in hopes of gaining a better understanding for the role of hypoxia, angiogenesis and necrosis in tumor evolution, as well as coding numerical solvers.
Ivan Vulovic
Computer ScienceIvan has contributed greatly to both the DTI and FMISO analysis projects.
Jennifer Hadley
AMGEN Scholar
Jennifer is a student at Washington University in St. Louis currently studying BioMedical Engineering and applying to med school. Jennifer contributed greatly to the FMISO project over the summer of 2007 with support from the AMGEN Scholars program.
Publications
Articles - Peer Reviewed
- M. D. Szeto, G. Chakraborty, J. Hadley, R. Rockne, M. Muzi, E. C. Alvord Jr., K. Krohn, A. M. Spence, K. R. Swanson: Quantitative Metrics of Net Proliferation and Invasion Link Biological Aggressiveness Assessed by MRI with Hypoxia Assessed by FMISO-PET in Newly Diagnosed Glioblastomas.Cancer Research 69(10):4502-9 Pubmed ID: 19366800
Hana Harpold
Hana's past research in Dr. Swanson's lab focused on creating a mathematical model for the PET tracer FLT, currently in clinical trials at the University of Washington. Hana is currently a student at the UW Med school, and has authored and published papers with Dr. Swanson and others.
Publications
Articles - Peer Reviewed
- HLP Harpold, EC Alvord, Jr., K. R. Swanson: The evolution of mathematical modeling of glioma growth and invasion. Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, 66(1):1-9, 2007. Pubmed ID: 17204931
- KR Swanson, HLP Harpold, LD True: Prostate Specific Antigen: A Clinical and Mathematical Conundrum. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 125 (3): 331-333, 2006. Pubmed ID: 16613335
- HLP Harpold, P. Vicini, KR Swanson: Kinetic Modeling of FLT-PET to Generate Parametric Maps of Proliferation. Journal of Undergraduate Research in Bioengineering, 6(1):49-68, 2006. JURIBE
Lily Chau
More on Lily when we next hear from her....Jeff Jacobs
Undergraduate in BiologyJeff helped with data collection and analysis
Carly Bridge
Patrick Reed
Mary Gates ScholarPatrick has worked on the development of computational methods capable of quantifying the rates of invasion observed for a glioma-rat model, in vitro, by the analysis of confocal microscopic images. This is significant not only as further validation of our model which describes glioma cell behavior, but as a method for quantifying the relationship between specific genes and their effects on cellular diffusion.
pjr4@u.washington.edu